Five days after Liu Bei issued the order to send troops, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were the final handover work before sending troops.

Guan Yu took Zhao Yun to inspect the county town and the surrounding dangerous passes, pointing to the commentary:

"Zilong, I'll leave it to you here. The Wuhuan cavalry is not familiar with mountain wars and water wars, so they are just here to defend the city. During my time in Jiameng, I have strengthened the camp at the end of Maming Pavilion Road and set up many deer antler pits. If Liu Yan dares to take the initiative to attack the key points, he is actually looking for death. With Zilong's ability, he will definitely be safe."

Zhao Yun bowed and agreed: "Brother Yun, don't worry, even if Liu Yan dares to rebel, he will come with the troops from the three counties of Shu, and I will definitely teach him that he will not be able to overcome the line.

I wonder if my brother is sending troops this time, can the ships be enough? I heard that when the lord was in the rainy mountain, it was extremely difficult to collect civilian ships, and even Yide sent troops to the whole army could not operate the entire army."

Guan Yu: "The Jialing River is busy with water, so it is quite convenient to find a boat. Moreover, I only have 5,000 soldiers, so why can't I transport enough? Unfortunately, if the ships in the Jialing River are transported to the Dangqu, you have to flow along the mountain for more than 600 miles, and after reaching Dangjiang County, and then go back 700 miles to reach the upper reaches of the Dangqu.

There are a total of 1,200 miles along the way, and I have to pass through seven counties and four surnames. Even if I can’t reach the upper reaches of Dangqu and only reach Hanchang, there will be a total of 1,000 miles. Otherwise, I would have to transfer more ships here to Yide.”

The reason why Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were particularly scarce in the direction of attack was that they crossed Daba Mountain from Hanzhong, entered another water system, and then re-scheduled and collected the ships. With the main ridge of Daba Mountain, the ships in the Hanzhong Basin could not be transported to the source of the Dangqu.

Guan Yu is directly leaning against the river, and Jiameng County is located at the intersection of Mamingge Road and Jialing River. Of course, it is easy to collect enough boats for tens of thousands of people.

Zhao Yun had no choice but to hear this, but just sighed and said goodbye to Guan Yu.

...

Guan Yu, with four thousand Youzhou soldiers and a thousand Banyan Man, who surrendered a month ago, went downstream from Jiameng and arrived near Langzhong, Brazil's largest county.

Yan Yan, the guard general of Langzhong, was a middle-aged man in his forties who met Yan Yan when Zhang Fei attacked Jiangzhou. He was in his early sixties, about twenty-five years later.

Yan Yan is also one of the few typical generals who "the Ling Emperor had reached the peak of his martial arts in the late years, but later completely entered a chaotic world and his condition declined due to aging." He is similar to Huang Zhong.

However, because he is still relatively young, Yan Yan's current official position is much lower than that of later generations, and he is not qualified to be a princess general, but just a county magistrate in Langzhong.

The troops under his command were already fully matched by the county's defenders, with about two thousand official troops. Of course, they were ineligible to fight with Guan Yu, but defending the city was OK.

Guan Yu did not have epoch-making siege weapons, and it was very difficult to attack a city defended by 5,000 people with 2,000 people. Moreover, the battle to defend the city can mobilize young and strong people in the city to help the battle. Even if ordinary young and strong people are not good at martial arts, they can still throw wood and stones under the city walls, and the gray bottle of gold juice will still be there.

In addition, because Langzhong County is a large county in Brazil, there are two Banshan Man tribes not far from the southern suburbs of the county, which are located in Nanchong and Xichong respectively. They are also two of the seven surnames of the monks. They are headed by the barbarian chief Pu Hu, and each can produce thousands of young and strong. (It is near Nanchong City on the Jialing River in the later generations, between Langzhong and Chongqing, but at the end of the Han Dynasty, it was still the Man tribe here)

However, Park Hu and others have always colluded with Zhang Lu, while Yan Yan cooperated with Zhang Lu as a court official, resulting in no direct friendship between Yan Yan and Park Hu. Without Zhang Lu's intermediary, Yan Yan was embarrassed to ask for help from the barbarians himself, so both sides fought on their own and resisted Guan Yu separately.

Guan Yu set up camps in the north of Langzhong City, and asked ships to transport grain from Jiameng. The soldiers cut down trees and reinforced fortifications, made a long-term battle, pretending to completely surround Langzhong County.

Yan Yan, like his nature, was very capable of avoiding fighting, and allowed Guan Yu to surround Langzhong from three sides without going out to fight.

Yan Yan personally inspected the arrangements of Guan Yu's army at the top of the city, sneering in his heart: "Hmph, what if Guan Yu's troops are completely surrounded by Langzhong by land? Xishuimen is facing the Jialing River, can he still surround the river? Otherwise, as long as our army can transport grain into the city by water at night, he will not starve us to death if he surrounds him for a few years."

After the land was completely surrounded, Guan Yu first used a brief plan and planned to give Yan Yan a warning, so he prepared to surround him and attack the support.

He pretended to siege the city every day, and at the same time isolated the information communication between Langzhong County and Xichong and Nanchong Man tribes. He wanted to trick the Nanchong Man chief Park Hu to worry that Yan Yan could not support him alone, so he sent troops to reinforce him, so that he could kill Park Hu who was attracted in the field.

Unfortunately, although Guan Yu's plan was correct, he gave the blind man a glamorous look and saw Park Hu's IQ was low enough. As soon as Guan Yu pretended to attack Langzhong, Park Hu believed it.

But the key point is that Park Hu and Yan Yan had no friendship. After receiving the scout report, they just said lightly: "If Yan Yan fights with that foreign household, it doesn't matter who dies. If both sides suffer losses, we will just take all the spoils of the two families."

So even though Park Hu knew Yan Yan was in danger, he had no intention of saving him.

Guan Yu had no choice but to give up his plan to siege the city and attack the aid and switch to his plan.

It took more than ten days to calculate the days in Langzhong, and it was April. Guan Yu, who originally planned to give the other party a warning before attacking his heart, decided to have a date or not, and try to attack his heart first.

On the first day of April, Guan Yu personally brought five hundred Danyang Axe Shield soldiers to the city, and shouted at the top of the city outside the range of the bow and crossbow, saying that he was right.

"Yan County Magistrate, as a court official, you are not afraid of being accused of right and wrong, and you are not afraid of leaving behind a bad reputation with the Mi thief Zhang Lu and resisting the imperial army?"

Yan Yan hung Guan Yu on the top of the city for a while before he came out to refute: "Guan Yu! Don't be clever and mean. I am not helping Zhang Lu, but I am ordered by Liu Envoy to defend Langzhong. What's wrong with you? If you want to attack Zhang Lu, why don't you cross the Yushan Mountain and walk through the Dangchuan?

Moreover, according to the imperial map, the Jiameng County you occupied the day before yesterday, it is not enough to belong to Guanghan County. As the prefect of Hanzhong, your lord Liu Bei would pursue Zhang Lu, but he actually invaded the county under Guanghan County. Moreover, there had never been any rice thieves in Guanghan before. You are arbitrarily abusing your power!"

Refutation must be refuted. After all, Guan Yu said that he represented the court, and if he did not refute, his military morale would be greatly bewitched.

Guan Yu asked the swearers to shout at the city: "Don't talk nonsense! If there had never been any thieves in Guanghan, how could our army defeat the pursuers of Zhang Lu's envoys in Jiameng a month ago? Could it be that Liu Yan was afraid that the envoys of the court arrived in Chengdu, so he would use the thieves to kill the angels at all costs even if the thieves entered the country!

The soldiers and civilians on the city listened, our general in charge of the west of the town was once the youngest minister of Zong Zheng, and thoroughly investigated whether there was any evidence of collusion with Liu Yan in Zhang Lu's counter-case. His Majesty sent the envoy Li Su into Sichuan and also personally investigated in person, all of which were blocked by Zhang Lu in Jiameng! Yan Yan saw that the matter was unclear and mistakenly used by the thief, so you should not be compatible with him."

After Guan Yu said this, the city wall was indeed slightly shaken.

Seeing this, Guan Yu had a temporary plan in order to expand the morale and attack the attack effect: he had surrounded Langzhong before and wanted to siege the city and attack the aid. However, he did not get anything. At least he knew that those Banyanman and Yan Yan were not completely in the same mind, but needed Zhang Lu, an intermediary, to coordinate in order to cooperate.

Since this is the case, he could use the thousand Banyan prisoners he had caught before to pretend to shake Yan Yan's determination.

Guan Yu pretended to smile and shouted: "Yan Yan! Your knowledge is not as good as the chief of the Barbarians! Since our army entered Sichuan, Rende Radio and Xinyi have always been there. Anyone who hired barbarian soldiers to help with the war will pay the military salary in full, which will be changed from the arrears of this dynasty.

Recently, I have received a thousand new Park Banyan soldiers, all following the example of Li Zhonglang recruiting the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Yufuluo. What do you think you can do if you get stuck in Langzhong? I am here to gather you, and I still have the remaining strength to divide the troops and continue to advance. The soldiers fight more and more. If you are obsessed with it, you will be waiting to be punished by the court in the future and your reputation will be destroyed in one lifetime!"

After Guan Yu finished speaking, he asked a leader of Banhuan barbarians to come forward and speak out, shouting to the city wall. The defenders were all locals, and they could still see whether Banhuan barbarians were at a glance. Seeing his appearance, weapons, armor, and accent, he immediately knew that Guan Yu had really surrendered so many Banhuan barbarian reinforcements.

This is not the end. After the barbarian leader shouted, another 20-30-year-old Huns rode on a horse and called out to this person under the protection of the shield formation. Of course, Li Su borrowed it from Yu Fulu and sent some to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Li Su used his power to envoy the General of the Huns to borrow a group of Southern Xiongnu nobles, even the Marquis of Gudu and the Chief of the Thousand Man of the Monarchs, so as to show up and tell Banyan Man: How good the treatment Liu Bei gave, he never owes wages. ::

The nobleman of the Huns shouted: "I am the second son of the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu. Now Yufuluo Shanyu's brother Hu Chuquan! Li Zhonglang, on behalf of the General Zhenxi, promised our army that there would be 100 million yuan in settlement fees every year without fighting, and it would be paid in full before entering Sichuan. With such a benevolent and righteous general, the Banyan and the Barbarian tribes will soon surrender to the General Zhenxi. If you resist the General Zhenxi, you will bear the consequences!"

Hu Chuquan also showed his own festival, and the soldiers in the city became increasingly shaken.

Guan Yu did not attack the city, and after scolding that day, he returned to the camp, and then pretended that nothing had happened. A few days later, he suddenly made an appointment to divide his troops to siege Langzhong, and then used Hu Chuquan to go south to spend money to recruit other barbarians. After the troops were enough and the cannon fodder was thick enough, he would come to deal with Yan Yan.

Yan Yan also had a close call to pay attention to it, so he would naturally grasp the trends of Guan Yu's army.

Guan Yu's move was somewhat similar to later generations Zhang Fei's "pretending to bypass Jiangzhou, and the main force continued to advance westward due to food from the enemy."

However, Zhang Fei's acting was more reckless and realistic, pretending that the main force wanted to sneak past. Guan Yu had a steady impression. Even if he pretended that the main force had to make a rash move regardless of the way out, Yan Yan didn't believe it, so he could only pretend to "send a small group of missions to persuade the surrender to show up and recruit more Banman to help the battle."

Combined with the emergence of Huchuquan, Yan Yan must believe this.

"No, if Guan Yu is so unscrupulous, I am afraid that the barbarians in Xichong and Nanchong will turn against each other. I have to make a desperate move in the future. When Huchuquan left the main force of Guan Yu's army, I will concentrate on the light warships in the city and chase them down the current.

As long as the troops are more than the personal guards around Huchuquan, if Huchuquan intercepts Huchuquan, the relationship between Guan Yu's army and the Southern Xiongnu will definitely break down. The Southern Xiongnu will also suspect that Guan Yu's army is posing as a vain for money, but in fact, it will kill the senior leaders of the Southern Xiongnu. In this way, the siege of Langzhong will be resolved."

Yan Yan thought so.

Yan Yan was also very unfamiliar with information. He didn't know that more than a month ago, Li Su used this mission to pretend that "if you let it go, it will have a major adverse effect" and forced Zhang Wei to come out of seclusion and intercept the envoy.

Now Guan Yu has learned bad things from Li Su, so naturally the first thing he thought of Li Su’s method, and then used the waste after a little deformation. This time he used Hu Chuquan as bait, and Hu Chuquan was still young and uneducated, and he didn’t know that he had made bait.
Chapter completed!